<div>Hi Roland, </div>
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<div>The most common retail barcode system is UPC. </div>
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<div>Details on how to decode it :<a href="http://www.adams1.com/upccode.html">http://www.adams1.com/upccode.html</a></div>
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<div>And from <a href="http://www.adams1.com/faq.html#upclist">http://www.adams1.com/faq.html#upclist</a> "</div>
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<div>"There is now a complete, free on-line database that allows anyone to type in a UPC or EAN number and get the company name and address for the product. It is a project developed by <a href="http://www.gs1.org/">GS1</a> and is called <a href="http://www.gepir.org/">GEPIR</a>. The number contained in the UPC or EAN barcode is now called the Global Trade Item Number or GTIN. You can go directly to the UPC and EAN search page by clicking <a href="http://gepir.gs1.org/V31/xx/gtin.aspx?Lang=en-US">here</a>. Please note that sometimes GEPIR is down. If you get a "page not available", try later or try the <a href="http://www.ucc-gepir.org/GEPIR_UCCNET/jsp/client.jsp">mirror site</a>. Currently, the database contains some product descriptions. Searchin "trade item ownership" will returns the company name and address. Some records may contain the telephone number of the company. The web service is based on XML, so it is possible to integrate an application program with this database. That means that it will be possible for a small store to scan the barcode on a product, access GEPIR over the internet, and download product and manufacturer information over the internet to build a local database of products in the store for free. GEPIR is under continuous development and will soon also provide product images, dimensions, carton sizes, tracking and tracing data. This database is open to consumers as well as companies (unlike UCCNet, a project of the GS1-US). </div>
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<p>There are other sources available too. There is a new resource for searching EAN barcode numbers at <a href="http://www.ean-search.org/">www.ean-search.org.</a> You can search for EAN codes or browse through the database of over 500.000 EANs. There is a site which provides product descriptions. It's called the <a href="http://www.upcdatabase.com/">Universal Product Code Database</a>, an on-line database for Universal Product Codes (UPC). <a href="http://www.schworak.com/upc/">The UPC Database Project</a> is another public UPC database from Glenn J. Schworak. The site also has links to other UPC databases. Swiss companies and EAN/UPC codes can be looked up at <a href="http://www.ean.ch/gepir/client_d.asp">EAN Switzerland</a>." </p>
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<div>I was shown this by a student in the UK who had been involved in a scam of editing barcodes so expensive products scanned as cheaper ones. If only he'd used his skills for doing goood instead of evil.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Ken</div>
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<div>Ken Price</div>
<div>Coordinator (Online Services)</div>
<div>Tasmanian eSchool</div>
<div>Department of Education Tasmania<br></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Bit unfair about the GST component, cash only too I notice.<br><br>Seriously though, is there some kind of mega shopping database where<br>
shop keepers can look up bar-codes or do they have to manually type in<br>all their product information .. say something like the SCIS database<br>enjoyed by librarians?<br> <a href="http://www2.curriculum.edu.au/scis/scisweb.html" target="_blank">http://www2.curriculum.edu.au/scis/scisweb.html</a><br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br>On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Mark KELLY <<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>> For those who still want to get a wife, I found a good deal at Target.<br>
><br>> <a href="http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97485_r4.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles2/a97485_r4.jpg</a><br>><br>> I wonder what the warranty terms are...<br>><br>
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